as in compatible
not having or showing any apparent conflict
the clothes you wear to work must be consistent with the company's dress code
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Recent Examples of consistent
After being a consistent part of the team’s bench as a reserve for the first couple of weeks, Christie was taken out of the lineup after inconsistent performances.
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Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 17 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Prosecutors allege that each fraudulent registration form included Boyer’s home address and was signed under penalty of perjury, and the handwriting appeared to be consistent with the writing on Boyer’s previous forms filled out while running for public office.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Taking creatine close to exercise times and being consistent provide the best results.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 6 Dec. 2024
That’s consistent with Sanchez’s testimony from Wednesday.
—Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 17 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Prosecutors allege that each fraudulent registration form included Boyer’s home address and was signed under penalty of perjury, and the handwriting appeared to be consistent with the writing on Boyer’s previous forms filled out while running for public office.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Taking creatine close to exercise times and being consistent provide the best results.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 6 Dec. 2024
That’s consistent with Sanchez’s testimony from Wednesday.
—Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consistent
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Many industries, particularly retail and service-heavy sectors, rely on older systems that are not immediately compatible with modern biometric solutions.Michael Engle, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The gloves also have thumb and index finger pads that are compatible with smartphones.Melony Forcier, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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China remains a far cry from having the sort of labor unions and collective bargaining that are taken for granted elsewhere, but, as Steinfeld correctly argues, Chinese labor practices are moving away from their revolutionary roots and are increasingly consonant with Western standards.Simon Tay, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2010
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Where the republic’s hypocrisy fed its fatal weakness, corruption, the Taliban’s unabashed brutality was consonant with the movement’s strength, its unity.Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
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This approach should include: Unified Data Infrastructure: Providing coherent access to data across diverse locations without relying on outdated monolithic data lakes.Steve McDowell, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The evaluation of Harris’s loss was also varied and pointed to issues like her inability to distance herself from Joe Biden or to articulate a coherent economic vision for the future.Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
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“Consistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consistent. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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